Austria National Team matches during the Spring 1978 and the
1978 World Cup
February 15, 1978, Athens, Greece 1-Austria 1 (Maik Galakos 40 /
Johann Krankl 59)
March 22, 1978, Charleroi, Belgium 1-Austria 0 (Willy Geurts 40)
April 4, 1978, Basel, Switzerland
0-Austria 1 (Kurt Jara 4)
May 20, 1978, Vienna, Austria 0-Holland 1(Arie Haan 55)
June 3, 1978, FIFA World Cup, Buenos Aires, Argentina, Austria
2-Spain 1 (Walter Schachner
9, Johann Krankl 76 / Dani 21)
June 7, 1978. FIFA World Cup, Buenos
Aires, Argentina, Austria 1-Sweden 0 (Johann Krankl 42 pen)
June 11, 1978, FIFA World Cup, Mar del
Plata, Argentina, Brazil 1-Austria 0 (Carlos Roberto de Oliveira Roberto
Dinamite 40)
June 14, 1978, FIFA World Cup, Córdoba,
Argentina, Holland 5-Austria 1 (Ernie Brandts 6, Robby Rensenbrink
35 pen, Johnny Rep 36, 53, Willy Van de Kerkhof 82 / Erich Obermayer 70)
June 18, 1978, FIFA World Cup, Buenos
Aires, Argentina, Italy 1-Austria 0 (Paolo Rossi 14)
June 21, 1978, FIFA World Cup, Córdoba, Argentina,
Austria 3-West Germany 2 (Own Goal (Berti Vogts) 59, Johann Krankl 66,
87 / Karl-Heinz Rummenigge 19, Bernd Hoelzenbein 72)
Team Captain: Mimis Papaioannou (Kostas Iosifidis from
73rd minute)
Official Kit Supplier/Designer: -
Uniform Colors: - Shirts, - Shorts, - Socks
Austria:
Hubert Baumgartner (Fußball Klub Austria Wien) (Friedrich Koncilia (Sparkasse Swarovski
Wacker Innsbruck) 54)
Robert Sara (Fußball Klub Austria
Wien)
Peter Persidis (Sportklub Rapid Wien)
Bruno Pezzey (Sparkasse Swarovski Wacker
Innsbruck)
Heinrich Strasser (Admira Wacker Sportklub -Wien)
Herbert Prohaska (Fußball Klub Austria
Wien)
Heribert Weber (Sturm Graz Sportklub) Günther
Happich (Wiener Sport-Club)
Franz Oberacher (Sparkasse Swarovski Wacker
Innsbruck)
Johann Krankl (Sportklub Rapid Wien)
Alfred Riedl (Royal Standard de Liege / Belgium)
Coach: Helmut Senekowitsch
Team Captain: Robert Sara
Official Kit Supplier/Designer: Puma
Uniform Colors: - Shirts, - Shorts, - Socks
Note:
1-First and only cap for Hubert Baumgartner (1/0) (1978).
Friedrich Koncilia (Sparkasse
Swarovski Wacker Innsbruck) (Erwin Fuchsbichler(Sportklub VOEST Linz)
46)
Robert Sara (Fußball Klub Austria
Wien) (Heribert Weber (Sturm Graz Sportklub)
46)
Erich Obermayer (Fußball Klub Austria
Wien)
Bruno Pezzey (Sparkasse Swarovski Wacker
Innsbruck)
Gerhard Breitenberger (Sportklub VOEST
Linz)
Herbert Prohaska (Fußball Klub Austria
Wien)
Josef Hickersberger (Düsseldorfer Turn-und Sportverein Fortuna 1895 e.V. / West
Germany) Günther
Happich (Wiener Sport-Club)
Franz Oberacher (Sparkasse Swarovski Wacker
Innsbruck)
Johann Krankl (Sportklub Rapid Wien)
Alfred Riedl (Royal Standard de Liege / Belgium) (Hans Pirkner (Fußball
Klub Austria Wien) 76)
Erich Burgener (Football ClubLausanne-Sports) (Roger Berbig
(Grasshopper -Club Zürich) 46)
Roger Wehrli (Grasshopper -Club Zürich)
Pierre-Albert Chapuisat (Fußball Club Zürich)
Yves Montandon (Grasshopper -Club Zürich) Pius
Fischback (Fußball Club Zürich)
Andre Meyer (Grasshopper -Club Zürich) Umberto
Barberis (Servette Football Club-Genéve)
Rene Botteron (Fußball Club Zürich) (Marc Schnyder (Servette Football Club-Genéve) 55)
Rudolf Elsener (Grasshopper -Club Zürich)
Claudio Sulser (Grasshopper -Club Zürich)
Raimondo Ponte (Grasshopper -Club Zürich)
Coach: Roger Volanthen
Team Captain: -
Official Kit Supplier/Designer: Adidas
Uniform Colors: Red Shirts, White Shorts, Red Socks
Austria:
Friedrich Koncilia (Sparkasse
Swarovski Wacker Innsbruck) (Erwin
Fuchsbichler (Sportklub VOEST
Linz) 46)
Robert Sara (Fußball Klub Austria
Wien) (Günther
Happich (Wiener Sport-Club) 46)
Erich Obermayer (Fußball Klub Austria
Wien)
Bruno Pezzey (Sparkasse Swarovski Wacker
Innsbruck)
Gerhard Breitenberger (Sportklub
VOEST Linz)
Herbert Prohaska (Fußball Klub Austria
Wien) (Heribert Weber (Sturm Graz Sportklub) 68)
Josef Hickersberger (Düsseldorfer Turn-und Sportverein Fortuna 1895 e.V. / West
Germany)
Kurt Jara (Meidericher Spielverein 02 e.V. Duisburg / West Germany)
Walter Schachner (Donawitzer Sport Verein Alpine)
Johann Krankl (Sportklub Rapid Wien)
Alfred Riedl (Royal Standard de Liege / Belgium)
(Hans Pirkner (Fußball Klub Austria
Wien) 76)
Coach: Helmut Senekowitsch
Team Captain: Robert Sara
Official Kit Supplier/Designer: Puma
Uniform Colors: White Shirts, Black
Shorts, Black Socks
Note:
1-Final cap for Alfred Riedl
(4/0) (1975-1978).
Photo From: Mondial, old series, Issue 18, May 1978
(April 4, 1978, Switzerland 0-Austria 1)
Photo From: Mondial, old series, Issue 16, April-May 1978
Photo From: Guerin Sportivo, No 47 (315), November 19-25, 1980
(April 4, 1978, Switzerland 0-Austria 1)
Date: May
20, 1978
Competition:Friendly
Result: Austria
0-Holland 1
Venue:Wien
(Vienna)-Praterstadion
Attendance:61,000
Referee:Jaromir Fausek (Czechsolovakia)
Linesmen-
Kick-off time: -
Goalscorers:
(Austria): None
(Holland): Arie Haan
55
Summary of goals:
0:1 (55th
minute, Holland): Arie Haan scored
with a long-range shot from outside of the box.
Lineups:
Austria:
Friedrich Koncilia (Sparkasse
Swarovski Wacker Innsbruck)
Robert Sara (Fußball Klub Austria
Wien)
Erich Obermayer (Fußball Klub Austria
Wien)
Bruno Pezzey (Sparkasse Swarovski Wacker
Innsbruck)
Gerhard Breitenberger (Sportklub
VOEST Linz)
Herbert Prohaska (Fußball Klub Austria
Wien)
Roland Hattenberger (Verein für Bewegungspiele Stuttgart 1893 e.V. / West
Germany) (Heribert Weber (Sturm Graz Sportklub) 46) Günther
Happich (Wiener Sport-Club) (Ernst Baumeister (Fußball
Klub Austria Wien) 76)
Wilhelm Kreuz (Sportclub Feyenoord -Rotterdam
/ Holland)
Johann Krankl (Sportklub Rapid Wien)
Kurt Jara (Meidericher Spielverein 02 e.V. Duisburg / West Germany)
Coach: Helmut Senekowitsch
Team Captain: Robert Sara
Official Kit Supplier/Designer: Puma
Uniform Colors: White Shirts, Black
Shorts, Black Socks
Note:
1-First cap for Ernst Baumeister.
Holland:
Jan Jongbloed (Roda JC (Juliana Combinatie) Kerkrade)
Willem Lourens Johannes ‘Wim’
Suurbier (Fußball Club Schalke von 1904- Gelsenkirchen / West Germany)
Rudolf Jozef ‘Ruud’ Krol (Amsterdamse Football Club Ajax-Amsterdam)
Gerhard Fleischmann (Admira Wacker
Sportklub -Wien), Herbert Feurer (Sportklub Rapid Wien), Werner Kriess (Sparkasse Swarovski Wacker Innsbruck), Erich Marko (GAK
Graz), Josef Stering (Sparkasse Swarovski
Wacker Innsbruck), Werner Zanon (Sparkasse Swarovski
Wacker Innsbruck), Felix Gasselich (Fußball Klub Austria Wien), Anton Pichler (Sturm Graz Sportklub), Josef Sara (Fußball
Klub Austria Wien), Peter Meister (First
Vienna FC), Franz Zore (SV St. Veit), Gerhard Ritter (FC Dornbirn), Karl
Daxbacher (Fußball Klub Austria
Wien),
Johann Scharmann (LASK Linz), Kurt Welzl (Sparkasse
Swarovski Wacker Innsbruck), Gernot Jurtin (Sturm
Graz Sportklub), Alfred Riedl (Royal Standard
de Liege / Belgium), Thomas Parits (Fußball
Klub Austria Wien)
1:0 (9th
minute, Austria): Walter Schachner received a long cross from inside the Austrian
half from Pezzey on the left side touchline, he advanced on a solo run and from
a narrow angle shot.
1:1 (21st
minute, Spain): Marcelino’s cross
from the right side was headed out and Dani volleyed in.
2:1 (76th
minute, Austria): A shot from
outside of the box, was blocked by a Spanish defender and Krankl shot in the
rebound.
1:0 (42nd
minute, Austria): Austria were awarded a penalty kick after Krankl was fouled
by Nordqvist in the box. Krankl scored from the ensuing penalty kick.
(Brazil): Carlos Roberto
de Oliveira Roberto Dinamite 40
(Austria): None
Summary of goals:
1:0 (40th minute, Brazil): From the right side,
near the touchline, Gil sent a long cross into the box, Roberto Dinamite
stopped the ball and shot past Koncilia.
Lineups:
Brazil:
1- Emerson Leão (Sociedade Esportiva Palmeiras- São Paulo)
2-Antônio Dias dos Santos Toninho (Clube de Regatas Flamengo- Rio de
Janeiro)
3- José ‘Oscar’ Bernardi (Associação Atlética Ponte
Preta- São Paulo)
4-João Justino Amaral dos Santos (Sport Club Corinthians
Paulista- São Paulo)
16- JoséRodrigues Neto (Botafogo de Futebol e Regatas- Rio de Janeiro)
17- João ‘Batista’ da Silva (Sport Club Internacional-
Porto Alegre)
5-Antonio Carlos ‘Toninho Cerezo’ (Clube Atlético Mineiro- Belo
Horizonte-Minas Gerais) (21- Francisco
Jesuino Avanzi Chicão (São Paulo Futebol Clube- São Paulo) 71)
18- Gilberto Alves Gil(Botafogo de
Futebol e Regatas- Rio de Janeiro)
19- Jorge Pinto Mendonça (Sociedade Esportiva
Palmeiras- São Paulo) (8- Artur Antunes Coimbra‘Zico’
(Clube de Regatas Flamengo- Rio de Janeiro) 84)
20- Carlos Roberto de Oliveira Roberto Dinamite (Club de Regatas
Vasco da Gama - Rio de Janeiro)
11- Dirceu José Guimarães (Club de Regatas Vasco da Gama - Rio de Janeiro)
Coach: Claudio Pecego de Morais Coutinho
Team Captain: Emerson Leão
Official Kit Supplier/Designer: Adidas
Uniform Colors: Yellow Shirts, Blue Shorts, White Socks
Photo From: Mondial, old series, issue
20, July 1978
(June 11, 1978, World Cup, Brazil 1-Austria 0)
Photo From: Onze, Issue 30, June 1978
(June 11, 1978, World Cup, Brazil 1-Austria 0)
Photo From: World Cup 78, by Phil Soar
(June 11, 1978, World Cup, Brazil 1-Austria 0)
Photo From: Onze-Mondial, Issue 45,
October 1992
(June 11, 1978, World Cup, Brazil 1-Austria 0)
Date:June 14, 1978
Competition:FIFA World
Cup-Final Round, Group A
Result:Holland 5-Austria
1
Venue:Córdoba -Estadio
Olímpico de Córdoba (Chateau Carreras), Argentina
Attendance:15,000
Referee:John Gordon (Scotland)
LinesmenFarouk Bouzo (Syria), Arturo Andres Ithurralde (Argentina)
Kick-off time: 13:45
Goalscorers:
(Holland): Ernie Brandts
6, Robby Rensenbrink 35 pen, Johnny Rep 36, 53, Willy Van de Kerkhof 82
(Austria): Erich
Obermayer 70
Summary of goals:
1:0 (6th
minute, Holland): Arie
Haan’s free kick from the right side was headed in by Brandts.
2:0 (35th
minute, Holland): Holland were awarded a penalty kick after Jansen was fouled
by Prohaska in the box. Robert
Rensenbrink scored from the ensuing penalty kick.
3:0 (36th
minute, Holland): Rensenbrink’s
cross from the left side was lobbed over Koncilia by Rep.
4:0 (53rd
minute, Holland): Schrijvers’
long kick reached Rensenbrink, who passed to the left for Rep to score.
4:1 (70th
minute, Austria): Krieger’s
cross from the right side to Erich
Obermayer, who lobbed over Schrijvers.
5:1 (82nd
minute, Holland): From
the left side, Rensenbrink passed to van der Kerkhof in the middle, who shot
past Koncilia.
Lineups:
Holland:
1-Pieter ‘Piet’ Schrijvers (Amsterdamse Football Club
Ajax-Amsterdam)
5-Rudolf
Jozef ‘Ruud’ Krol (Amsterdamse
Football Club Ajax-Amsterdam)
6-Wilhelmus Marinus Antonius ‘Wim’ Jansen (Sportclub Feyenoord -Rotterdam)
7-Pieter ‘Piet’ Wildschut (Football Club Twente 65 -
Enschede)
9-Arend ‘Arie’ Haan (Royale Sporting
Club Anderlechtois / Belgium)
10-Reinier Lambertus ‘René’ van de Kerkhof (Philips
Sports Vereniging Eindhoven)
11-Wilhelmus Antonius ‘Willy’ van de Kerkhof (Philips Sports Vereniging Eindhoven) (3- Dirk
Hendrikus ‘Dick’ Schoenaker (Amsterdamse Football Club Ajax-Amsterdam) 60)
12-Pieter Robert ‘Rob’ Resenbrink (Royale Sporting Club
Anderlechtois / Belgium)
16-Nicolaas ‘Johnny’ Rep (Sporting Etoile Club de Bastia
/ France)
22-Ernestus Wilhelmus Johannes ‘Ernie’ Brandts (Philips Sports Vereniging Eindhoven) (4-Adrianus
Ambrosius ‘Adri’ van Kraay (Philips Sports
Vereniging Eindhoven) 66)
Coach: Ernst Happel
(Austria)
Other
Substitutes:
14- Janus ‘Johan’ Boskamp (Racing White Daring Molenbeek / Belgium)
19- Willem Petrus ‘Pim’
Doesburg (Sparta
Rotterdam)